Steve Rotheram MP, the Labour Member for Walton, revealed at Friday’s memorial service at Anfield commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the disaster, that he had been asked to table an early-day motion in the House of Commons asking the Queen to confer the honour on the 60-year-old Scot.

In his speech, the former Lord Mayor of Liverpool said it would be “on all our behalf that the King of the Kop can become ‘Sir Kenny’.